Cisco VIM Insight Overview (Tech Preview)
Cisco VIM 2.0 provides an Intuitive and easy way to deploy and manage the NFVI platform, reducing user-error and providing visualization deployment which is a mechanism to manage multiple Cisco VIM Pods from a single portal. In CiscoVIM 2.0, a light-weight UI which is a dockerized application, that supports multi-tenancy with local RBAC support and CiscoVIM Rest layer are integrated. The container based UI platform manages multiple CiscoVIM pods right from day-0, or above in the lifecycle of the cloud.
The Cisco VIM insight can be installed in:
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Standalone/non-HA mode: One can start off by installing in a Standalone/non-HA mode initially (on the management node of the pod) or a standalone (BOM same as the management node) server and eventually move to a three-node system (BOM is same as the management node) that will provide an HA of the UI system (in future release).
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HA mode (in future release)
As the UI interacts with each pod through REST API and very little RBAC information of the admin and user is kept in the DB, rendering the migrating from one install mode to another can be done effectively.
The UI has two types of views: As part of bootstrap UI admin info is needed, who can add more users as UI and/or Pod Admin.
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UI Admin: UI Admin can add users as UI and/or Pod Admin.
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Pod admin: Pod Admin only have privilege at Pod level, unless he is also an UI admin.